Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights - The American Prospect prospect.org/2026/07/20/t...

The Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing and reassigning staff responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign disinformation operations in U.S. elections. bit.ly/4pmBCJb

Twelve nurses in New York City were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software, according to their union — a move that comes not long after nurses went on strike and fought for safeguards against AI.

Ebola death toll rises to 930, as outbreak spreads at record pace. The rapid spread is possible largely because Elon Musk removed all assistance furnished by the US for early detection and treatment of Ebola. www.ft.com/content/f212...

Crude Oil has 43 days of supply left in the U.S. — the lowest inventory in 45 years @barchart.com ⛽️

Our public employee members—representing job titles ranging from lifeguards to emergency room nurses—gathered at convention to discuss common issues like disappearing public funding and understaffing, while sharing how being a part of a union supports their essential work.

This piece by @drjudystone.bsky.social is an *exceptional* look at the root causes of Cyclospora outbreaks, including a discussion of how migrant workers are treated and the consequences of that behavior.

Many pregnant Texas residents now fear losing their lives during pregnancy, after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abortions.

Dems need to stop sucking at the AI teat “PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3 billion in costs to the bills of millions of households and businesses within the next three years” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...

Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities.Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee than it has publicly acknowledged/the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods

I hope @thrasherxy.bsky.social takes these cowards and apparatchiks to the cleaners. He’s a terrific scholar and talented teacher and this all was a political hit job.

As someone who writes about both the perils and the promise of governance-via-tech, this story is so welcome and so so important. Good government needs, and is vastly empowered by, good government tech!!

1/ Last Thursday the White House removed every commissioner of the federal agency that certifies America's voting machines. Mid-fight over the SAVE Act — the papers-to-vote bill the Senate has killed twice.

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“For 40 years, a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso has provided legal assistance to hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Now, the ministry, Estrella del Paso, says the Trump admin's refusal to pay more than $765K owed in reimbursements is pushing the organization to the edge of collapse.”

This is bad.

ICE has made 10,000 arrests in a five-day period— doubling its arrest numbers— and much of it hasn’t been reaching headlines. The U.S. has been wrapped up in festivities with several cities hosting the FIFA World Cup, including Seattle, and with Pride events and parades. Read more below & subscribe

Ohio oil and gas commission meets at 1 p.m. today to decide whether to frack 23,000 acres of state park and wildlife areas for natural gas-- to power data centers. Meet the Gov. Mike DeWine team: @saveohioparks.bsky.social: bit.ly/4eNhCKK To access meeting: bit.ly/43XExhJ @apnews.com @axios.com

“This is what healthcare consolidation looks like: fewer choices, less access, and decisions made farther away from the communities they affect." - Rick Lucas, @ohnursesassoc.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2026/06... As long as Mad King Donald draws breath the ratfuckery will not stop. Grand conspiracy my butt, there is no evidence but what keeps spooling up the goobers on Fox. People like Yoo are trying to run at the head of a herd that only exists in their imaginations.

How much does normalcy bias affect media reporting? Here is a chart of global sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) from 1982 to 2026 with the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 omitted. As of June 27th, global SSTs have set 26 daily record highs in a row. Media? Is there anybody out there?

The Red Line warns of coming destruction. and it is getting worse with each passing day.

"Under proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance that governs the expenditure of federal funds, decisions on all grants will now be in the hands of political commissars rather than subject-matter experts."

1/ Labor, women, the Church — three forces that could close ranks and haven't. Plenty of people in each are already fighting for the others. Their institutions aren't — each defending its own corner while the same blows fall on all three. A short argument for closing ranks: acommontable.netlify.app

These Toronto doctors were branded as ‘pariahs’ for helping AIDS patients when others had turned them away. 40 years later, the Toronto HIV Primary Care Physicians Group is revealing their ‘darkest and brightest’ moments, by Megan Ogilvie www.thestar.com/news/gta/the... via @thestar.com

Iowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hope www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

This Juneteenth, Ohio Organizing Collaborative is delivering on its mission: fighting for working people. The ruling regime hopes to scare, stop & silence anyone working to make US an actual democracy. OOC is ensuring the will of the people prevails. www.ohorganizing.org/open-letter

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Action Alert: Statewide Data Center Organizing Call #iowa

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

The Revolt against AI Data Centers Gathers Steam in the US open.substack.com/pub/derspieg...

80% of all journalism jobs have disappeared in the 20 years that I have been a reporter paydayreport.com/8/

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Federal officials Tuesday said a grand jury indicted the 15 “for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers,” and for efforts to allegedly “violently oppose immigration law enforcement.” Officials, however, declined to provide details about the specific acts that led to the charges.

Over four months the US government subjected the one major AI company that refused the Pentagon's demand for unlimited use — no surveillance of Americans, no autonomous weapons — to an extraordinary punishment; meanwhile, SpaceX..... surveilorbebanned.netlify.app

Scoop: In unanimous bipartisan ruling, NLRB rejects Amazon's challenge to landmark Whole Foods unionization vote in Philly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Vance is as much of an ideologue as Stephen Miller and, at the time, seemed to want to see bodies in the streets.”

Dominari Holdings subsidiary Dominari Securities announced that it has raised $200 million from investors for American Ventures Opportunity QP Series IV SpaceX Fund - to acquire 1.48 million shares of SpaceX www.prnewswire.com/news-release... Don Jr. and Eric Trump own 12% of Dominari Holdings